using water for trees to capture carbon and create natural habitats for wildlife
using water for cooling AI data centers because air conditioning costs a lil moreHuh losers. Deforestation is an indicator of a growing economy. China is collapsing
It’s a waste, I tell you! All that water getting trapped in the trees and not plastic bottles.
That article is actually good, though. Its just a stupid headline.
Obviously chinas massive engineering projects are going to effect the environment, sometimes in negative and unexpected ways. Their best universities are studying those effects.
That article is actually good, though. Its just a stupid headline.
Common result of headlines being written by editors instead of the person who wrote the article
Altering the climate in any way except through recreational tire fires is communism!
Better to chop them all down and make half of it a golf course and the other half an AI data center.
China could find the cure for cancer and Westerners would still find a way to call Xi Jinping evil because of it.
“But at what cost?”
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The Chinese are raising an army of communist ents to wage war against the west. This is why we should launch a pre-emptive invasion and firebombing campaign.
You know even if there was an underlying adverse ecological impact, the cool thing about planting too many trees is you can just cut them down again WAYYY easier than if you needed to plant another forest.
I know which problem I’d rather have is all I’m saying.
i will not be breathing the chinese air. i’ll accept chinese plastics in my blood stream if american corporations profit off it but how are they gonna make any money off some trees in china that aren’t even being planted just to be harvested like all the trees in america are?
Removing those trees in the first place changed the water cycle too.
its being changed chinesely now
A lot of the area planted was originally grassland
Ah, but how long was it grassland? Humans have been changing the landscape for tens of thousands of years, on top of major climate changes before and during that. Much of what we call “natural” or “wild” was/is actually curated and lived in.
I’m not really sure I’m following your point. Sure, humans have been extensively altering the environment, probably since the extinction of the megafauna if not before (which probably resulted in a lot of conversion of grassland and savanna to forest). But natural succession also occurs, and a large, even-aged monoculture planting is a different beast than gradual afforestation. We could discuss whether the tradeoffs were worth it, but “this resulted in an abrupt shift to the local water cycle in an area where water scarcity is an impediment to agricultural production” is a reasonable observation to have.
Unlike me, I just cut down all the trees. That surely has no consequences whatsoever he he he he
At what cost???
Think of all the Pokémon cards those could become
Riiiiight, because desertification never dries out anything.
